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All-NLC Academic Team Announced

The Class of 2020 Academic All-Northern Lakes Conference team was announced this week. Winners were:

HS Wrestling Rules Changes Address Weigh-in Procedures, Hair Length

As the result of a concerted effort to accommodate the growing number of female wrestlers, the 2020-21 high school wrestling rules changes are headlined by significant adjustments to weigh-in protocol and appropriate hair length requirements. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Wrestling Rules Committee met April 5-6 …

Grace Alum Matt Moore To Be New Tiger Boys Hoops Coach

After an extensive search, Athletic Director Matt Binkerd hired just the third boys basketball head coach at Warsaw Community High School. The choice??Forty-year-old Grace College alum Matt Moore. The announcement came Saturday and is subject to school board approval, which is expected to come at its next scheduled meeting a …

Tigers Burgh, Hutcherson Make College Choice

Despite the lack of a senior season, Warsaw baseball players Noah Burgh and Jacob Hutcherson announced Friday they will continue their baseball and academic careers are Purdue North-west and Trinity Christian College, respectively.

Tiger Best Teams Of All Time (Part 3)

This is the last of my series on the great Warsaw teams of all time. There are a few more teams that need to be mentioned. Again, these are teams that set themselves apart over the course of time and they are in no particular order.

Kilburn Wins Don Dicken Award

Warsaw senior Grayson Kilburn was named the female recipient of the The Don Dicken Golf Award for the 2019 season on Tuesday. The award recipients are chosen by Warsaw golf coaches and presented to the senior golfers who excel in leadership, academics, citizenship, and team effort.

Warsaw Native Mangas Wins Bevo Francis Award

Indiana Wesleyan men’s basketball junior Kyle Mangas added to his season accolades, being named the 2020 Clarence “Bevo” Francis Award winner, announced by the Small College Basketball and the National Awards Committee. This award is given to just one player within Small College Basketball per season. This marks the first …

Mangas Is A Natural Hero

In the later stages of the 2015-16 Warsaw boys basketball season, Warsaw’s quest for perfection was still very much intact as they traveled to Fort Wayne Northrop on a January Saturday night. Jan. 23, to be exact. They were trailing in the dying moments of the game, and they passed …

Former Tiger Remembers His Roots, In Life And Hoops

After learning Monday he had won the Bevo Francis Award as the nation’s top small college men’s basketball player, Warsaw native and Indiana Wesleyan junior guard Kyle Mangas took some time to reflect on how he began his journey to the top of the small college basketball world. “I started …

IWU’s Mangas Named Francis Award Finalist

MARION – Indiana Wesleyan junior and Warsaw Community High School alumni Kyle Mangas was named Saturday as one of 14 finalists for the Bevo Francis Award, given to the best small college basketball player in the nation.

IHSAA Cancels Spring Sports Season

After Gov. Eric Holcomb’s order Thursday afternoon for all school building in Indiana remain closed for the remander of the academic year, the IHSAA followed by cancelling the spring sports season for 2020.

Which Tiger Team Is The Best Ever?

In these days of darkened sports arenas and gyms and empty diamonds and tracks complexes, sports people are scrambling for sports to talk about. I feel like I have plenty of subjects for columns, but this one was suggested to me and so I thought I would tackle it. Its …

NLC Develops Plan For Revised Spring Sports Schedules

The Northern Lakes Conference announced Friday different scheduling and seeding formats for what would be an abbreviated spring sports season.

Mangas Is Named NAIA Player Of The Year

Indiana Wesleyan junior and Warsaw community High School graduate Kyle Mangas made IWU history Thursday, being named the 2020 NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball Player of the Year.

Strange Times Leave Spring Sports Student-Athletes, Coaches Doing What They Can To Prepare

Monday was supposed to be the first official day of IHSAA baseball practice. Instead, high schools were closed and practices postponed for weeks because of the Coronavirus pandemic. On local college diamonds, NAIA member Grace College had its season canceled and NCAA Division III Manchester University because of COVID-19 concerns …